Location , location, location

In our quest to read widely, we are often finding books with a variety of settings and/or a strong sense of place.

United States of America

Alabama - Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe
Alaska - Snow Child
Arkansas - True Grit
California - Seabiscuit
Florida - Next Year in Havana
Georgia - Gone with the Wind
Hawaii - Moloka'i
Illinois - Bread and Wine
Storm Front
Indiana - A Girl Named Zippy
The Magnificant Ambersons
A Girl of the Limberlost
Kansas - Velma Still Cooks in Leeway
Kentucky - Hannah Coulter
Jayber Crow
Maine - A Walk in the Woods
Maryland - Seabiscuit
Massachusetts - Friday the Rabbi Slept Late
Michigan - Bread and Wine
Station Eleven
Minnesota - Happy to Be Here
Ordinary Grace
Mississippi - The Help
Nebraska - My Antonia
New Hampshire - A Prayer for Owen Meany
New York - My Name is Asher Lev
The Chosen
The Promise
The Great Gatsby
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Garlic and Sapphires
House of Mirth
Rules of Civility
The Great Bridge
When You Reach Me
North Carolina - Garden Spells
North Dakota - Happy to Be Here
Ohio - Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Ready Player One
Oklahoma - A Homemade Life
Ready Player One
True Grit
Oregon - The Shack
Pennsylvania - A Walk in the Woods
Tennessee - A Walk in the Woods
Vermont - Crossing to Safety
Virginia - Animal Vegetable Miracle
Washington - A Homemade Life
Wisconsin - Crossing to Safety
Wyoming - Shane

Canadian Provinces & Territories

Nunavut - The Falcon Thief

Prince Edward Island - Anne of Green Gables

Marilla of Green Gables

Quebec - Louise Penny's Gamache series

Newfoundland and Labrador - The Whisper on the Night Wind

European Countries

Belgium - Lovely War

France - My Life in France
All the Light We Cannot See
Train in Winter
Code Name Verity
Eiffel’s Tower
The Sharper Your Knife the Less You Cry
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
World at Night
The Missing Italian Girl
Paris Wife
The Three Musketeers
A Moveable Feast
Les Miserables
A Year in Provence
A Tale of Two Cities
The Count of Monte Cristo
Lovely War

Germany - My Berlin Kitchen
The Book Thief
The Hiding Place
Basket of Flowers
Boys in the Boat

Greece - Circe
The Three Theban Plays
This Rough Magic

Iceland - Burial Rites

Ireland - What the Wind Knows

Italy - Four Seasons in Rome
Enchanted April

Netherlands - Black Tulip
The Hiding Place

Norway - Kristin Lavransdatter

Romania - Dracula

Russia - Crime and Punishment
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
A Gentleman in Moscow
Anna Karenina

Serbia - Murder on the Orient Express

Spain - Don Quixote
Mother Tongue
It’s Not About the Tapas

Switzerland - Heidi
Frankenstein

United Kingdom - Wolf Hall
Raven Black
The Clockmaker’s Daughter
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
The Madwoman Upstairs
And Then There Were None
The Uncommon Reader
Harry Potter (series)
Rebecca
The Lake House
Northanger Abbey
Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Professor and the Madman
The Secret Keeper
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Secret Garden
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Sense and Sensibility
The Old Curiosity Shop
Ivanhoe
Emma
Murder at the Vicarage
A Tale of Two Cities
The Code of the Woosters
Pride and Prejudice
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Susanna Wesley
Persuasion
Surprised by Joy
Possession
Silas Marner
Longitude
44 Scotland Street
Whose Body?
Maisie Dobbs
Police at the Funeral
A Morbid Taste for Bones
The Daughter of Time
Ocean at the End of the Lane
House of Silk
The Splendid and the Vile
Magpie Murders

Caribbean / Central America

Cuba - Next Year in Havana

Mexico - All Roads Lead to Austen
Prisoners of Geography

Guatemala - All Roads Lead to Austen

South America

Argentina - All Roads Lead to Austen

Brazil - State of Wonder
Feather Thief

Chile - All Roads Lead to Austen

Ecuador - All Roads Lead to Austen

Paraguay - All Roads Lead to Austen

Oceania / Antarctica

Antarctica - Alone in Antarctica

Australia - Big Little Lies
The Lost Man
The Road from Coorain
A Town Like Alice
What Alice Forgot

New Zealand - Island of the Lost

Papua New Guinea - Lost in Shangri-La

Africa

Algeria - Map of Salt and Stars

Botswana - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Egypt - Map of Salt and Stars

Kenya - West with the Night

Ghana - Wife of the Gods

Libya - Map of Salt and Stars

Morocco - Map of Salt and Stars

Nigeria - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Rwanda - Baking Cakes in Kigali

South Africa - Born a Crime
Cry the Beloved Country
Hero of the Empire

Zimbabwe - The Falcon Thief

Middle East

Iran - A Teaspoon of Earth and Sea

Israel - Monday the Rabbi Took Off
Ben Hur

Jordan - Map of Salt and Stars

Lebanon - Prisoners of Geography

Saudia Arabia - Finding Nouf

Syria - Map of Salt and Stars

Turkey - Murder on the Orient Express

United Arab Emirates - The Falcon Thief

Asia

Afghanistan - Three Cups of Tea
The Underground Girls of Kabul

Bhutan - Radio Shangra-La

China - The Good Earth
Pavilion of Women
Prisoners of Geography

Tibet - Sky Burial

India - The Case of the Missing Servant

Japan -The Devotion of Suspect X

Laos - The Coroner’s Lunch

Malaysia - A Town Like Alice

Myanmar (Burma) - Elephant Company

Nepal - Into Thin Air

Pakistan - Three Cups of Tea
Unmarriagable

Space

International Space Station - Endurance

Mars - The Martian

Interteller Space - Project Hail Mary

Global

At Home in the World
Around the World in 80 Days
Mother Tongue
Prisoners of Geography